Zamboni Desk Vacuum
Zamboni Desk Vacuum – $19.95
Is it time to clean off that mess you call a desk? You need the amazing Zamboni Desk Vacuum from the NeatoShop. This little guy is always at the ready to clear away crumbs and resurface your work space arena.
Be sure to check out the NeatoShop for more fantastic Office Supplies!
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$1,000,000 Gold Vacuum Cleaner Now on Sale at Reduced Price
But there’s more! If you order now, GoVacuum will ship this commercial grade vacuum cleaner for free. It also comes with anti-marring urethane wheels and custom engraving on the gold surface. Be sure to listen to the rap jingle at the link.
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Can life survive in outer space ?
Astronauts have conducted experiments to determine which life forms can survive the vacuum of space. A suitcase-sized experimental apparatus known as …
High Tech Doormat Sucks the Dirt off Your Shoes
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Paionia Furyokuki’s doormat is like a vacuum cleaner for your shoes. As your body weight depresses the knobs on the surface, suction from the air pump pulls away dirt on the bottom of your shoes. They’re on sale in Japan for $6,250.
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Werner Herzog’s Note To His Cleaning Lady
Werner
Herzog, the famous director, is mad. He is fuming mad. Absolutely livid
… at his cleaning lady. So he left her this note:
Now we must turn to the horrors of nature. I am afraid this is
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Tube transpot – around the world in 6 hours ?
One campany is working towards a future connected by a sophisticated vacuum tube transportation system. Known as Evacuated Tube Transport, the technol…
The Late Movies: Roomba Riders
Who rides on a Roomba vacuum cleaner? Anyone who isn’t heavy enough to crush it! Which unfortunately, leaves most of us out.
Kittens
How many kittens can you get on a Roomba? All of them!
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Dog
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Ferret
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Hamster
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Chick (with cat)
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Prairie Dogs
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Guinea Pigs
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Cat, Not Dog
No Roomba for you!
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Baby
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The Agreeableness of Robotic Vacuum Cleaners
What kind of personality does your Roomba have? None, I suppose. But what kind should it have? Researchers in the Netherlands from Delft University of Technology, Delft, and Philips Research, Eindhoven, gathered a focus group together to decide what kind traits your vacuum should have if the technology were available to give it a personality.
The [...]
Light Created in Vacuum
They say that something can’t be created out of nothing, but that’s what researchers may have done- sort of. Quantum theory states that even in a vacuum some particles do exist. Testing this, scientists in Sweden claim to have made sparks in a vacuum.
According to quantum theory, empty space is, well, not that empty after [...]
Dog-Shaped Vacuum Cleaner
In 1973, Ann Margaret Zaleski patented a dog-shaped vacuum cleaner. Why? From the abstract:
A toy dog closely resembling a real dog and having a hollow interior in which is mounted a vacuum cleaner having a suction hose which is retractable from the tail end of the dog. This enables vacuuming a dog after a haircut [...]
